South Delta’s rugby Sun Devils enjoy an epic rise to new heights, but BC’s new AAA Tier 1 champs play from a deeper place

ABBOTSFORD — Andrew Kraft could appreciate the surreal nature of the moment.

Two years ago, if you had dared breath aloud the fact that the South Delta Sun Devils could win a B.C. boys high school rugby championship at the second-highest tier of provincial competition, the response would have been a lot louder than mere snickers.

Yet as you watched it all unfold Saturday at Abbotsford’s Rotary Stadium, as Tsawwassen’s finest kept the hometown Robert Bateman Timberwolves at arm’s length for the entire B.C. Triple A Tier 1 title match, you realized just how quickly great coaching and the right collection of physically-gifted and committed players could precipitate a rise.

BCSSRU 3 Year Calendar

BCSSRU Provincial Championships are scheduled for the next three years:

2019 Wednesday, May 29, Thursday, May 30, and Saturday, June 1.2020 Wednesday, May 27, Thursday, May 28 and Saturday, May 30.2021 Wednesday, June 2, Thursday, June 3, Friday, June 4 and Saturday, June 5